{UAH} What's the difference between Britons, Britishers and British people?

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Joseph Koppenhout, Dabber (2015-present)

Answered Sep 9, 2015 · Author has 777 answers and 2.5m answer views

'Britons' is a term generally used to describe the inhabitance of the c UK. It could technically be used to describe a the people who lived in 'less Britain', known now as Brittany or those living in the Republic of Ireland, though one is now French and the Irish consider themselves, well, Irish, rather than the part of some part of the greater 'British Isles'.
Britishers is a term that has the same meaning, though it is usually applied to the people of Britain. It is primarily used (in my experience) by Indians or when quoted in history books. The term is not really used in the UK today.
The British people are again the people who are  living in Britain. It is normally used to describe the people who live in the UK.

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Richard Bowell, lives in The United Kingdom

Answered Apr 22, 2017 · Author has 108 answers and 14.7k answer views

Technically speaking, Britons are the people of the British Isles - which includes the land masses currently England, Scotland, Wales, and the Island of Ireland, plus the much smaller Islands around these two large land masses.

But the word Britons is rarely used nowadays. It is more used to now to refer to the people who inhabited the area mentioned pre the existence of Nation States.

Britishers doesn't really exist as a word. But British and Brits refers to people / citizens of the UK - people of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, but not citizens of the Republic of Ireland.

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Mark Harrison, Lived here since 1970

Answered Sep 4, 2017 · Author has 11.2k answers and 29.3m answer views

Britishers is a term used pretty much only in Indian English.

Britons is an ethnic term - specifically used to describe a celtic tribe who inhabited the islands from the iron age to the middle ages.

British people is a term used to describe people who currently live in Britain, irrespective of their phenotype.

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John Michael Cule, One is actually British, you know.

Updated Jun 30, 2017 · Author has 5.1k answers and 2.3m answer views

'Britisher' is a word, in as much as people use it. It just isn't a word any British person would use.

'Briton' is a bit old fashioned but still used, mostly for rhetorical purposes. Conjures up an image of Victorian politicians calling on 'stout and hardy Britons everywhere to stand up to the Czar over Sevastapol'.

'British people/person' is a fair enough description but a bit wet. It doesn't mean quite the same thing as 'British citizen' though.

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Angus Foster, studied at Bay House School

Answered May 17, 2017 · Author has 1.2k answers and 643.3k answer views

Originally Answered: Is there any difference between "Brit", "Briton" and "Britisher"?

A "Brit" and a "Briton" are the same thing, although the latter is more formal. A Britisher is also someone from Britain, but it's extremely rarely used.

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